Word: kit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yourself Kit. The Dental Soci ety has spent -$150,000 gathering dossiers on 137 labs which, it estimates, have done a $9,000,000 annual business. This year it won an injunction in Superior Court, for bidding 19 of the labs to take impressions or do major repairs except under the supervision of a dentist. In the Illinois Supreme Court last week, lawyers argued the case on appeal. The defendants contended that the law would force them out of business and thus unconstitutionally deprive them of their means of livelihood...
That night, after telephoning trusted army comrades, Lott touched off what Brazilians labeled "the anti-golpe." In the small dark hours, troops in battle kit swarmed into rain-soaked Rio. By morning the city was in Lett's hands. Segments of the navy and air force first declared for Luz, but backed down the next day without firing a shot. Luz himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according...
...happens every fall. The leaves change to yellow and crimson, and some 5,000,000 Americans change from their business suits and work clothes into red windbreakers and gaudy caps. Thus colored protectively against being mistaken for their prey, and loaded with a staggering kit of rifles, knives, binoculars, food, drink and camping-equipment, they head for the mountains, forests and plains of the U.S. to hunt big game...
...Underwear. Among America's 5,000,000 big-game hunters, there are probably 5,000,000 differing but firmly held opinions on the right equipment and tactics for big-game hunting. One hunter will spend thousands of dollars for his kit, including such luxury items as Abercrombie & Fitch Co.'s pure cashmere long underwear (price $99) and binoculars (at $230). Another will actually turn a profit on a hunting trip, spend less than $100 and come home with enough venison to stock his freezer...
...Scots Guards on duty plied him with whisky, cigars, and duck in aspic. But Wintle refused to let them clean his boots and uniform. "Much as I admire the Guards," he said coldly, "I do not feel they quite understand how to look after a cavalry officer's kit...